Essays and addresses / by professors and lectures of the Owens College, Manchester.

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1874
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Essays and addresses / by professors and lectures of the Owens College, Manchester. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Macmillan, 1874 (London : W. Clowes.)

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xvi, 560 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Published in commemoration of the opening of the new college buildings, October 7th, 1873

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Includes bibliographic footnotes

Contents

Opening address / by the Duke of Devonshire.--I. On some relations of culture to practical life / by J. G. Greenwood.--II. Original research as a means of education / by H. E. Roscoe.--III. Solar physics / by B. Stewart.--IV. The distance of the sun from the earth / by T. H. Core.--V. The limits of our knowledge of the earth / by W.B. Dawkins.--VI. The use of steam / by O. Reynolds.--VII. Primeval vegetation in its relation to the doctrines of natural selection and evolution / by W. C. Williamson.--VIII. Science and medicine / by A. Gamgee.--IX. Some historical results of the science of language / by A. S. Wilkins.--X. The Talmud / by T. Theodores.--XI. Provençal poetry in old and modern times / by H. Breymann.--XII. The Judicature act of 1873 in its relation to the history of the judicial system in England. By J. Bryce.--XIII. The railways and the state. By W. S. Jevens.--XIV. The peace of Europe. By A. W. Ward

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